{"product_id":"the-beautiful-and-damned-9780451530431","title":"The Beautiful and Damned","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic novel of greed and vice from F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful, willful wife, Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife, Zelda--from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned \u003c\/i\u003edepicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw \"with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries.\"* By turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and chillingly prophetic, it remains one of his best-known works, which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted \"will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*Tobias Wolff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451530431\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.86h x 4.38w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e32372 \/ Beautiful and Damned\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916912988341,"sku":"9780451530431","price":7.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_42f71d82-5597-4ba1-bcc8-cf51d4d53818.jpg?v=1687273600","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-beautiful-and-damned-9780451530431","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}